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1.10.2017

The Art of Words

I gave up making New Year's resolutions a long time ago.Instead, I choose one word at the beginning of each year,

a word that will serve as a meditation, a 'touchstone' if you will,

that helps me to focus on something that will guide me through the year.

It's about the overall concept instead of the individual steps to a goal.

[While resolutions just seem to feel like never-achieved, guilt-inducing lists]

In previous years my words of choice have included create, faith, patience, joy, embrace...

positive qualities and defining characteristics that I have wanted to put into practice.(one year it was honestly 'survive', because that's all I dearly wanted to do...)

This year, the word that I chose was inspired by a friend...click 'continue reading' for my Word of the Year!My Aunt Diane is not actually related to me... she's more of an 'honorary aunt'.She and my Mom have known one another since they were toddlers back in the 1940's.Diane has always been in my life. So were her parents, friends of my grandparents.And my Aunt Diane is a woman with qualities and characteristics that I find inspiring...from her nurturing way of reaching out to those in pain (she was a nurse)

and her sense of adventure and openness to life

to her ready smile and contagious giggle,

the woman embodies joy and charm and ease,

always looking at life through those proverbial rose' colored glasses.(no, that is not a typo. I did mean rose' wine.).She is, in a word, bubbly.

And I decided that I want to be more like her.... so my Word for 2017 isbubbly.

I chose this word for other reasons, too...

like the fact that after a few really hard years, it's time to stop grieving and start celebrating.

Celebrating life in ways from small to large, simple to overboard, every day.Focusing on the good, the happy, the possible, the joyful.And how better to celebrate with than the imagery of champagne?!

I like having my word around me, as a reminder of my mindset goals,

so I created a few pieces of up-cycled art with the word bubbly on it...

words in art are a trend right now, and I like the playfulness of it.

I created simple things that didn't take much time at all:

* vintage book pages with my word and the year written in freehand script,

one displayed on a vintage clipboard.

* a canvas from a thrift store, covered in vintage paper and then embellished with a sketch.I am actually still working on this one...

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